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Re: BGP Filtering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Sat Jan 19 05:28:06 2008

In-Reply-To: <F9181128E9584B40B5A04C43800604B406DCD6@anyanka.c2internet.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:21:15 +0000
To: Ben Butler <ben.butler@c2internet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On 15 Jan 2008, at 16:11, Ben Butler wrote:

> As a transit consumer - why would I want to carry all this cr*p in my
> routing table, I would still be getting a BGP route to the larger  
> prefix
> anyway - let my transit feeds sort out which route they use & traffic
> engineering.

Maybe you don't get covering aggregates.  That causes holes.  Whether  
you care is a matter of local policy, though. :-)


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